Baskadia

I was in class my brother came in

"Enock,he called me and then moved out. "Where are you going?" my teacher asked him. He replied that our father was dead . Earlier my dad was Bewitched by our neighbor he suffered a disease called "etalo " . This kind of disease can only be healed by a powerful witch doctor but at that time we had no one. During that disease our the evil spirits drunk the blood of our goats and we woke up when all of them were dead. Our pig started passing out stool which was nothing but ashes.That night before his death something was killing him by holding his neck .I moved out of the class my sister was crying I looked confused because at that time I was six years old .

We went home and people were crying my elder brother came back and told him the news. He also stated crying. My mom also did not know so I was the first one to give her the news so she cried and fainted. They took us to our grandson were the body was and all the people were crying I be looked at him as he was lied on bed sheet and cried.

We mourned for two days and finally burried him .

After four days his ghost came back . He used to come in visions. This because the Devil "mayembe" the local name that killed him was still in the house. My ghost dad possed my brother so he removed the spear and started moving around the house trying to chase the mayembe away. We never had peace in our home because at night frogs used to cry in the house my .

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